The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1887-06-23

! have found coal and natural gas WlthlI
800 feet of the surface on their property
eighteen miles south of the city.
| A mob set fire to the Jewish quarter
of the town of Duna Szerdahely, Hun.
gary, Monday last. One hundred and
twenty-five families are homeless.
Several thousand people attended the
jubilee choral services held in New York
last Sunday, in honor of the fftieth ami.
versary Of Queen Victoria's reign.
The steamer Chaplain burned last Fri
day night off Charlevoix, Michigan
!, Twenty persons are known to be drowned
and seven or eight are still missing.
The stock transfer book of the Broad
way Surface road produced in evidence
in the Sharp trial in New York on Mon
day was found to be perfectly blank.
The purchase of 100000 acres of land
| at Sonora, Mexico, for the establishment
of an American colony was effected in
San Francisco last Thursday by eastern
capitalists.
Harold Schenk, tried for murder, at
Dillon, was convicted of manslaughter
and sentenced on Monday evening to ten
years confinement in the penitentiary at
hard labor.
A German has been arrested at St.
Medardentalles, France, on suspicion of
being spy entrusted with learning
the manufacture Of melinite, the new
French explosive.
Mrs. Cleveland was present last Sun
day at the baccalaureate sermon delivered
by Rev. DR.. Frisbee, president of Wells
seminary, Aurora New York, to the
graduating class.
The floods in Hungary are subsiding
and fears are now entertained that fevers
will result from decaying vegetation left
by the floods. The entire damage is esti-
mated at $5OOO0O
A crash in the speculations in wheat
occurred in Chicago last week by which
the bulls were badly done up and Ker-
shaw & Co. are bankrupts to the tune of
very large amount.
The stage which runs between Bald
win and Barretts ON the Missouri Pacific
railroad in Missouri was held up by
three men in masks last Sunday after
noon and $3.50 secured.
james Wilson, the Philadelphia forger
whose defalcations amount to $500, O,OOO
was arrested last Saturday at Toronto,
Canada, where he had been living under
an assumed name for the past two
months.
H. V. Lesley, who defaulted last July
with $65O,2OO of the Chesapeake &
Delaware canal companys cash and
bonds, was arrested in Philadelphia on
Saturday last. He was secretary of the
company.
German papers say the recovery of the
emperor is slow but noticeable, but that
he will require great care and rest in the
future, which is conceived as limiting that
he must soon pass away forever from ac-
tive public duties.
Crown Solicitor Murphy intimated to
the tenants at Bodyke that if they renew
the offer to pay Landlord Callaghan e9OC
and he refuses, the government will
abandon it's prosecution of tenants and
decline to furnish further police to aid in
carrying on the evictions.
The Queens advent into Westminster
Abbey on Tuesday was arranged with
more pomp and ceremony than it is pos
sible to describe. A number of people
along the route were smothered in the
crush. Congratulations we're received
from President Cleveland.
The Supreme Court confirmed the de.
cision of the court below in the case o1
Maxwell, murderer of Preller, last Satur'
day. The date of the execution is fixed
at July 18th. An attempt will be made to
bring the case before the United States
Supreme Court on constitutional points
Considerable patriotism of tempest
| and teapot order was unearthed last week
by an order of the President returning all
the flags captured during the civil wal
to the government OF the respective states
with whose soldiers they had gone into
the field. The order has since been re-
voked.
Audley Coote, managing director of the
company formed to lay telegraph cables
between Vancouver Island, B. c., anc
Australia, touching at Hawaii and FIJI
says construction work will be begun al
once, subsidy of 100000 year having
been obtained from the Canadian
Hawaiian and Australian governments.
The east-bound California express OF
the Southern Pacific railroad was robbed
last Saturday, near Flatonia, abou
ninety-fve miles east Hs6an Antonio
All of the passengers were relieved o